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- Tags: Lancaster finishing school
Interview with Benny Goodman. Two
Tags: 51 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Grand Slam; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Magister; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); perimeter track; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Leconfield; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Kenneth Killeen
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 410; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Torquay; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Interview with Philip Peel
Interview with Joseph Henry Cook
Tags: 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Frederick Harold Shepherd
Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training
World War II & Flying Memoirs
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; crash; Gee; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; York
Interview with Martin Arthur Catty
Tags: 3 Group; 514 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; entertainment; evacuation; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; love and romance; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice Stoneman
Tags: 57 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; ditching; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mess; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; training
Interview with Horace Burchett
Posted to 463 Squadron at Waddington, still with the…
Interview with James William Birchall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; lynching; Me 109; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; RAF Wickenby; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Dennis Moore List of Experience
Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 52 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Master Bomber; Meteor; navigator; operational training unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Wigtown; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; York
Dennis Moore Autobiography
Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 52 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; 82 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; C-47; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; flight engineer; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Master Bomber; memorial; mess; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; operational training unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Catterick; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Farnborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Shackleton; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; York
Tribute to a Pathfinder captain
Tags: 156 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fear; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; Me 110; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-1; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Geoffrey Conacher
Ron's rogues gallery
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Colin Wood
Interview with John Cuthbert
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; Stirling; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Jack Jarmy
Interview with John Green
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb disposal; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Mayhill
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Westcott; Stirling; training; Wellington
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-3; V-weapon